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CNN: "Video games get you in the mode to do the killing"

iNvidious01 said:
violence gets me in the mood for violence

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That's acted terribly
 
So they are saying a video games are deadly? Wow, what about fictional books? This is really bad to point the finger at video games because they need an article.
 
Watching cnn, fox, or any other news stations that don't do news make me want to kill people more than any other form of entertainment. You show me the murder report every time I turn on the news, I get mad, and really depressed making me want to kill the people who do some really sick shit.

Video games are fake as fuck, and when im playing video games going out and killing someone is the last thing on my mind.
Fuck off cnn.
 
I have yet to ever play a game that put me in an aggressve mood, no matter how violent it was. I just get relaxed for a few hours, then turn the game off and go about my life. Which is what most of us who are sane do.

If someone is mentally unstable, like this guy clearly is, then I can see how fantasy and reality start to blend together. But it would hardly be just games that would fuel the fire. The guy thinks he is the Joker for crying out loud, and went on a rampage in a theater. Would it not be better to say in this case that it was movies that affected someone with a clearly troubled mind?
 
Yes, let's forget all the music about being a thug or a gangster, and all the movies showing murder in the worst ways imaginable. Let's just focus on one medium and the pointing the finger on it without any evidence.
 
Hayvic said:
Hold your horses people. Direct quote from the article. It's not as bad as the thread title implies.
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Yeah, the comment you quoted might be true, but that kind of psychological "profiling" also applies to every single concept, or expressed notion of violence in video games, movies, someone talking about it, cartoons, any TV channel, movie, person that mentions violence directly or indirectly. It could even extend to colors, or whatever any random psychotic person might possibly perceive as violence -- people interpret feelings in different ways, and react in different ways.

To specifically single out video games like that is very poor sensationalism on the writers part, and indicates that he or she doesn't know what they are writing about or, the most likely scenario, they chose to, or were "ordered to" greatly exaggerate the issue by deception and sensationalism to get pageviews.
 
Video Games causes more death with heart diseases, diabetes and obesity than violent crime.

Now imagine a graph right here proving my point.

Also CNN seems to notice that their War Correspondence isn't on par with "Generic FPS" game, I'd say they are threatened and fear for their ratings.
 
But if you’re a psychopath, video games help you get in the mode to do the killing," Brown said.
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Okay, granted it could trigger a mentally disturbed person to commit such a heinous act, but then so can A LOT of other things. If it wasn't Crysis, it would be the neighbor taking out his trash at 10pm or stepping on a tack.... or not being able to find a fucking job, or dealing with crappy employment opportunities.... In otherwise, life throwing one big curveball! Guess what.... Video games are the least of what causes someone with mental instability to go postal.
 
In terms of feeling "amped up" and excited action movies do just as good a job for me. Why isn't he ragging on them?
 
Kurdel said:
Are you implying the advent videogames has single handedly sliced violent crimes by half over the last 20 years?
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It has been implied before that video games allow one to get their aggression out, supposedly reducing real violence. Mind you, real violence could be punching a wall or slapping a person and not just simply mean just shooting or stabbing someone. Then again, it may be just as silly to say video games reduce violence as it is they cause it.
 
plc268 said:
That's not really the point. The point is, is that's its pure unfounded speculation. Hell, even if the dude played a lot of shooters, that doesn't prove anything.

The sad part is, is that there's no story here, yet CNN posts it anyway. Because vidya games are the root of all mass shootings. It's beyond ridiculous, and borderline offensive.
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You guys need to read the article. CNN didn't post an article. This is just an opinion of one of the guests on one of their shows.
 
Derrick01 said:
No but it certainly flies in the face of these people over the years saying video games make people turn into violent animals.
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Not, it doesn't. It tries to put refute a ridiculous claim with a ridiculous corrolation.

One can easily make a similar graph with the appearance of MTV and the so called MTV generation, and it still would be ridiculous.
 
It's sad that we're still here as a society.

NateDrake said:
Didn't Penn and Teller have a kid who plays FPS all the time actually fire a gun at a range and he started to cry over it. He could handle doing the act in a game but when it came to actually fire a weapon he didn't like it and became upset over it.
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That was a good episode.
 
When I play an fps I certainly feel like purchasing weapons. I'm so glad I can walk into a store and legally purchase the same weapon I used in MW to mow down innocent Russians. Damn videogames, all ur fault.
 
Jackpot said:
In terms of feeling "amped up" and excited action movies do just as good a job for me. Why isn't he ragging on them?
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Maybe because they lack the interactivity that games provide. Or maybe because games are an easy target and since there is a lack of understanding between those who play games and those who don't, it's easy to stir up paranoia.
 
Contrary to most of gaf members, I do have a problem with the banalization of violence in videogames. However, one has to be consistant and brandish the finger at all media. Cinema is violent and television, under the guise of information circulation, even more so...
 
Every time I hold a real gun, the millions of times I've "fired" one in a video game are the experiences farthest which are farthest from my mind. The physical action of holding a weapon is not comparable to an analog stick or mouse with cross-hairs attached.

I'm also a psychopath, btw, so my opinion matters.
 
Nintendo-4Life said:
Yes, let's forget all the music about being a thug or a gangster, and all the movies showing murder in the worst ways imaginable. Let's just focus on one medium and the pointing the finger on it without any evidence.
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Music and movies have been blamed before. Marilyn Manson took a lot of heat over the Columbine shootings. I don't think the media ever apologized to him after it was revealed that the shooters weren't even a fan of his music. But he was popular at the time, so they immediately jumped on him.

I can't find it right now, but he actually wrote a Rolling Stone article about that shooting. He did a good job of laying out things and how the media immediately wants to blame entertainment when things like this happen.
 
I can only imagine how hard it must've been for all those poor killers to get into the right mode before video games came around.
 
I did a little research and I discovered a startling thing... There was violence in the past, long before cartoons video games were invented.

Its great the media ignores the common link among all shootings, and instead points to video games, comic books and movies. I guess its easier to target industries without a super lobby behind them.
 
Pistolero said:
Contrary to most of gaf members, I do have a problem with the banalization of violence in videogames. However, one has to be consistant and brandish the finger at all media. Cinema is violent and television, under the guise of information circulation, even more so...
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The difference is that games are active media that require your participation to progress and other media are strictly passive. The interactive nature of gaming means it is substantively different from television or film, and thus a comparison really isn't sound.
 
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